This story happened in 'Cheverly' about 21 years ago when I was about 5. It is a TRUE story.....

When I was young, I lived with my parents and brother and sister in a small 4 bedroom council house that had never seemed to have any sort of paranormal activity before. Every summer we would go on holiday with our caravan and very best friends and their caravan. This year was no different. It was the summer and we had all left our house with friends in too and headed to "Cornwall" We were gone for 2 weeks. We all had a really fantastic time. When we came back everything seemed fine until a few days later my mum ran into an old friend of hers in our village shop. They were very pleased to see each other and her friend asked my mum where she was living now. My mum told her she was living in the same house as before in Cheverly. The woman then asked if my mum had people staying at our house while we had all gone on holiday. My mum was a little worried and asked why? Her friend then said not more then a week ago she had called to see my mum, not knowing we had gone on holiday. She said that an old lady had answered the door and said there was no Sue or Pete (my mum and dad) living at that address.....

As soon as my mum got home she then questioned our neighbors, who had been feeding our animals while we were away, and asked if they had seen anything or heard anything. They told my mum that a few times they had gone round the house and there had been an empty milk bottle on the front door step. Then another day they found the front door had been left open but they could see that nothing in the house had been moved or taken, so they thought they had forgotten to lock the front door.

A week passed and a few more little stories started to come to light. A few people said they had seen an elderly couple going in and out of our house. Neighbors just thought we had people staying at our house while we were away looking after the place.

My mum and dad were really worried about all these stories that they called out the police. During the police investigation, they found that only half of our neighbors had seen anyone, but that their stories were very similar.

Eventually, everything went back to normal, or so we thought. On a Sunday evening, we were all watching the 'Antiques Rood show' when my mum started to notice a very strong smell of bleach. This ended up getting so strong that she felt it burning the inside of her nose. The really strange thing was, none of us could smell anything at all. Then I started feeling really cold, even though I was sitting next to an open log fire. Then a coat hanger hanging on the birdcage that was hanging from the ceiling, started to swing really violently which made our bird go mad. Then it all stopped, and everything was normal again!

Not long after this happened, my sister was having a bath. With the rest of the family in the garden she was starting to get out, and she heard some very heavy breathing and dragging feet coming towards the bathroom. She started to get very scared and ran out of the bathroom without stopping. As she ran onto the landing she felt like she had run into someone or something and heard it fall against the wall but there was no one there. When they all went back to look they didn't find anything only what looked like a pattern on the carpet of something dragging their feet....

As for the elderly couple, nothing was found out about them and they were never seen again. If anyone does know anything about the past history of this house 'Freeways, Cheverly, Newbury, Berkshire,' please email me at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it To this day the families that move into that house never seem to live there for longer then a year now or so I've been told.

Our local newspaper found out about our haunting, and they interviewed my parents and published the story. It has become a very well known ghost story for the area.

Mrs. Victoria Price, Wales